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Problem with that approach is that blackmailers* never just blackmail once - they usually come back for more once they’ve found it works…
*And that’s all this is - nuclear blackmail.
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Are you willing to call his bluff? Do you want to play politics or poker?
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He’s already installed a puppet regime in Belarus, he’s trying to do the same in Ukraine - don’t believe what people say, believe what they do (in this case, taking back the ex-Sov countries, one by one).
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It’s no secret what his objectives are. He wants to rebuild a Russian empire. Not a Soviet Union. He sees himself more as a Czar.
He will try to take any non-NATO country within his sphere of influence. All NATO can do is prepare and arm these nations and continue sanctions.
NATO is defensive, as you well know having served, they will not attack unless attacked.
Whatever happens in the future, we are in a new Cold War for the foreseeable.
Probably, Only revolutionary action in Russia or any of the puppet states it acquires will change anything.